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DPS Skis Founder, Stephan Drake
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 01:03:10
Publish Date: 2017-04-17 18:09:30
Description:

We talk to DPS Skis founder, Stephan Drake, about the early days of DPS, ski design, and the new DPS ski boot that aims to change skiing as we know it.

TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Where did you grow up, and when did you get into skiing? (2:25)
  • Being a “gringo ski bum” down in Las Lenas, Argentina (7:40)
  • Were you interested in product design in general? / Early days of DPS? (13:35)
  • Carbon fiber & the history of DPS (18:50)
  • The first rockered ski -- the 2002 Tabula Rasa (23:40)
  • Low weight and the “race to zero” in ski design (26:37)
  • DPS’s new Alchemist construction vs. their Pure3 construction (29:30)
  • Tip Taper (where I was expecting to get into a fight with Stephan) (40:39)
  • The new paradigm-shifting DPS ski boot (54:15)

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